Milk-pail supporter.



UNITED l' VSTATES Patented January 31, 1905.

LPATENT OFFICE] MILK-FAIL 'sfQPPoRTL-m.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 781,425, datedJ anuary 81, 1905.

' l Application nea May-2,1904 serial no. 205,985t J To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LADELBERT HIGGINS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, county of Hennepin, and State of Minne- Sota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Milk-Fail Supporters, of which the following is a specication.'

My invention relates to supporters for pails for use in milking; and its object is to provide simple and convenient devices attached to the pail by means of `which it can be supported between the knees of the person while milking.

My improvement, -stated in a general way, comprises suitably-slotted ears attached to the pail and adjustable supporters formed of wires bent into suitable shapes and preferably having a tendency tospread their ends apart and adapted to be inserted in or removed from the slots inthe ears and to engage the top of the pail and upper walls of the ear-slots when lifted to substantially horizontal positions for supporting the pail, and when not in use the supporters are so arranged as to gravitate to the sides of the pail.

The devices of my improvement are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is aside elevationof a'pail equipped with my improved supporters. Fig. 2 is a top View of a side portion of the pail, showing one of the supporters in operative position.

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a similarportion ofthe pail, showing the supporter in inoperatlve or depending position. Fig. 4 is a sec` .tional view of the pail on the line .a z of Fig.

3 and shows the ear and supporter in side elevation; and Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 4, but lshowing thesupporter in operative position.

In the drawings, l designates an ordinary pail, 2 its bail, and 3 the ears, to which the` bail is connected in the ordinary way. In the The ears have openings 4 in their middle portions on a plane with the top-5 of thepail, the top margin of the tin of the pail being bent around a circular stiiening-wire 6 in the customary way. The ears are offset or bent out- Vward suitably, as shown at 7, to permit the spring the other ends of the branches l0 farther 'apart than the width of the ear-slots 4.' The end portions of the wire are bent outward and backward, as at l1, and the extremeends slightly downward, as at `l2, so that when the ends are inserted in the openings 4 and the supporters are raised to their limits the ends l2 will bear upon the pail-top 5 and the parts of the branches adjacent to the looped portions ll will bear against the upper walls of the openings 4. The supporter can be inserted or removed from the slot by pressing together its inner ends and turning it toward one side of the ear, which will permit one and then the other hooked portion to be passed through the opening. To change it from operative or horizontal to inoperative or pendent position, it is only necessary to press the ends inward suiiiciently Vto free them from the recesses 8 and then allow it to gravitate.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, lsp v l. The combination with a pail, of ears having central openings on the plane of the pailinto loops toward the right .and left, respectivelv, to form bearings, substantially as set fort 2. The combination with a pail, of ears having central openings on the plane of the pailtop, the upper portion of the opening being laterally recessed, and pail-supporters having body portions extending outward through said openings in the ears and consisting of Wires bowed at the middle and having a tendency to spread laterally and having their end portions bent into loops toward the right and left,

respectively, to form bearings, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof l have signed my name to this speciiication,in the presence of two sul)- scrihing` Witnesses, this 26th day oi April` 1904.

ADELBER' HIGGINS.

Witnesses:

P. H. GUNCKEL, H. A. BOWMAN. 

